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Daily prayer and reflection with the Most Rev Mario Conti, Archbishop of Glasgow. Show more
A flight from Sweden to Scotland proves a filming challenge for wildlife cameraman John Aitchison with two moose among his companions. Show more
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Helen Mark explores the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and hears from some of the people whose lives revolve around it in various ways. Show more
The number of dairy farmers in England and Wales as halved in the last ten years. Charlotte Smith visits a Cheshire farm to find out if there is still money to be made out of milk. Show more
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With Sarah Montague and John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. Show more
Richard Coles with author Charlie Higson, poet Kate Fox, a diplomat held hostage by al-Qaeda, a Romani journalist, a man who eschews shoes and Evelyn Glennie's Inheritance Tracks.
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Sandi Toksvig explores the pleasures of going on a retreat and visits some of the places painted by Sir Winston Churchill. Show more
Music journalist Paul Morley finds out what people were really listening to during the Blitz during the Second World War. From September 2010. Show more
Elinor Goodman looks behind the scenes at Westminster as Parliament returns for a two-week sitting before the main party conferences.
This edition, presented by Kate Adie, includes despatches from the fields of Sierra Leone, the hill stations of India and from New York's playground for the masses, Coney Island. Show more
Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance.
Clive Anderson is joined by Peter Hain MP, Russell Tovey and Will Self, Gideon Coe and Phill Jupitus. With music from Imelda May and Ola Onabule and comedy from Josh Widdicombe. Show more
Profiling John Yates, the senior Metropolitan Police officer who investigated allegations of celebrity phone hacking at the News of the World under the editorship of Andy Coulson. Show more
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests poet Craig Raine, historian Kathryn Hughes and writer David Aaronovitch review the week's cultural highlights including Tamara Drewe. Show more
Alexei Sayle's parents were communists, his father an NUR official. His holidays in the 1960s were spent at union conferences. Using the archive he conjures those days and people. Show more
My Family and Other Animals is Gerald Durrell's comic gem of a book, the classic story of his upper-class English eccentric family on the pre-package holiday island of 1930s Corfu. Show more
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Eddie Mair chairs a debate at Chatham House in London on the progress of the conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Show more
Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, featuring teams from the Midlands and Northern Ireland. Show more
Anthony Sattin on what is said by some to be the most beautiful poem in the Arab world, Layla and Majnun, which was also the inspiration for Eric Clapton's seminal pop song. Show more
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The mundane becomes the extraordinary when a caretaker catches sight of himself in a mirror and sees more than he bargained for. Read by Hugh Ross. Show more
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